Residents of the city of Vyshneve, Kyiv region, on Wednesday stopped a train with supporters of Viktor Yanukovych, who arrived from the Donetsk region, Podrobnosti.ua reports with reference to the UNIAN agency. The unmarked train arrived at the station in the afternoon. Passengers were to be transferred to buses and sent to Kyiv. Residents of the city, after questioning the passengers, blocked about twenty buses with their own cars.

Lieutenant Colonel Vladimir Zavadsky, who is accused of the death of eleventh-grader Alexander Bochanov at the training camp, filed a cassation complaint in which he disagrees with the court's verdict. Now the Surgut garrison court will have to notify all participants in the process of the complaint received, reports REGNUM. The case will be sent to the Ural District Military Court. Vladimir Zavadsky was sentenced to four years of probation with a two-year probationary period.

In 2004, inflation is likely to exceed 10%, says Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin. "In 2004, inflation is likely to go beyond the limits predicted by the government," the minister said at a cabinet meeting. Earlier, the Ministry of Economic Development planned that inflation would be 10%, RIA Novosti reports. In his speech, Kudrin noted a number of factors that were not predicted.

Several hundred Ukrainian Americans held a demonstration in front of the Russian embassy in the United States. They came out in support of the Ukrainian opposition candidate in the presidential election, Viktor Yushchenko, Interfax reports. Demonstrators came to Washington from New York, Chicago and Philadelphia. Slogans about "stolen elections" and "Russian conspiracy" were heard at the rally. Earlier, a demonstration was held in front of the Ukrainian embassy.

Dmitry Revyakin, the Kalinov Bridge group. Photo by Maxim Poloboyarinov, body art Vasily Gavrilov Body art and advertising photo-the combination sounds quite exciting. It is worth going to such an exhibition to a young man if he considers himself ... well, interesting. Moreover, people are quite fashionable for Russia: photographer Maxim Poloboyarinov and artist Vasily Gavrilov. Their surnames, maybe some say nothing.

In the Yaroslavl region, unknown people attacked a deputy of the regional Duma, his car was also stolen, a source in the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Yaroslavl region told RIA Novosti According to him, the day before, near the village of Korgish, four unknown people stopped a Volkswagen car driven by a deputy. After that, the criminals shot him several times in the legs with a pistol, got into the deputy's car and disappeared. The victim with gunshot wounds to the legs was hospitalized.

Maria Sharapova after the victorious finals of the tournament in Los Angeles. Photo by ar. Russian tennis player Anastasia Myskina said she was not going to play in the Russian team with those people who do not respect her. At the same time, the tennis player had in mind her colleague Maria Sharapova.

Leh Valens. Photo from the site www.segabg.com Lech Valens, who arrived in Kyiv on Thursday morning, said that he was an OSCE authorized. “A minute ago,” he said at noon at a press conference with Yushchenko, “I received information by phone that I am authorized from the OSCE, and this is another argument that can also help Ukraine.” Valensa clarified that he should currently receive a formal document on his appointment by the OSCE authorized.

The government approved a draft law on a sharp increase in sanctions for the illegal installation of special signals on cars and increased the fines for this violation by several times. According to Interfax, this decision was made on Thursday at a government meeting at the suggestion of Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev. In addition, the government approved bills to amend the Code of Administrative Offenses and the Law on Road Safety.

The Main Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine opened two criminal cases on the fact of the capture of Kyiv Shevchenko University by supporters of Viktor Yushchenko, as well as on the fact of an attempt by protesters to seize the presidential administration building. This was reported to RIA Novosti on Thursday by the public relations department of the Interior Ministry.

Vladimir Putin at the Russia-Es summit. Hard of news The Russia and the EU have various approaches to the situation in Ukraine, the Netherlands Minister of Foreign Affairs Yan Peter Balkenende stated at the results of negotiations with Vladimir Putin in The Hague during the Russia-Es summit. According to the Russian BBC service, Balkenend noted that the EU cannot accept the official results of the Ukrainian elections, since they do not meet international standards that the OSCE stated.

Supporters of the leader of the Ukrainian opposition Viktor Yushchenko begin a preventive blocking of international highways in the border areas. According to Interfax, this was stated by the head of Yushchenko's campaign headquarters Alexander Zinchenko at a rally in Kyiv.

According to Viktor Yushchenko's central headquarters, on Wednesday, two planes with soldiers of the Russian special forces Vityaz landed at the capital's Boryspil airport, Korrespondent.Net reports. "Colonel Lyashenko, deputy commander of the aviation brigade for logistics, who was instructed to serve these aircraft, refused to comply with the order. He submitted a resignation report," the press center of the headquarters said.

Victor Yushchenko and Viktor Yanukovych. Photo from umoloda.kiev.ua The Supreme Court of Ukraine forbade the centriezbic to officially publish the results of the elections until the end of the consideration of all complaints and claims, the opposition "Fifth Canal" reports. This decision was made in connection with the procedure for appealing the official voting results initiated by the opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko.

The plane with Russian journalists flying to the Russia-EU summit landed in Brussels instead of The Hague due to dense fog. "We are simply horrified, you can't see anything five meters away," the duty officer of the Russian embassy in the Netherlands told RIA Novosti by phone. Usually, journalists are sent to events with the participation of the president on the advanced aircraft of the Rossiya airline.